Dingworthstrasse (Hildesheim)
The thing Worth Street is a historical street in Hildesheim in the district Moritzberg .
Origin of the name and history
The village of Moritzberg arose in the early Middle Ages below a ridge called "Zierenberg" at that time, on which the Mauritius Church and the Moritzstift were founded in 1028 by the Hildesheim bishop Godehard . The head of the monastery with the title "Provost" was the highest authority of the place. He was empowered to judge the place, and the meeting place where resolutions were made and judgments were made was called the "Thing" or "Ding". The negotiations that he led were called "Propstding" and they took place annually on the Tuesday after June 24th, the festival of the name of John the Baptist. A “worth” is the name given to a higher-lying place where one can avoid floods - e. B. by the nearby copper strand - was safe. The Dingworthstrasse was already in the early Middle Ages a section of the Hellweg , a trade route leading from the Rhineland via Hildesheim to the Elbe, and was originally called "Tief Strasse", "Untere Bergstrasse" or "Untere Strasse". This name is based on the course of the road below the Krehla hill, which was mentioned in a document as early as 1151 as "Crehlo" - which means "crow forest". The thing assemblies usually took place in the open air outside of the localities, and the free space on the northern edge of the town directly on the main road was ideal as a meeting place because it was easy to reach and protected from flooding.
In the Middle Ages, at the northern end of Dingworthstrasse, immediately south of today's confluence with Brauhausstrasse, was the Dingworthtor, built in 1452, one of three gates for the fortification of the village of Moritzberg, which was surrounded by a wall with a moat, but not by a wall. The Dingworthtor rose at the point where today the zebra crossing is not far south of the junction of Brauhausstrasse. The place's Dingplatz or Thingplatz was directly in front of the Dingworthtor at the corner of today's Brauhausstrasse and Elzer Strasse. Towards the end of the 19th century, the as yet undeveloped area at the southern end of Elzer Strasse was called “Before the Dingwortsthore” (sic). Moritzberg was named a town in 1652 and received market rights . However, it is not known where the market was held because a special marketplace was not created. Dingworthstrasse, even then the main street of Moritzberg, may have served as a long street market. The "Pflockflötchenmarkt" (Pflockflötchenmarkt), which takes place every year on Whit Monday in Bergstrasse and begins on the corner of Dingworthstrasse, is a reminder of the market rights of Moritzberg. Around 1765 Dingworthstrasse, then still called "Untere Strasse", was paved. The Gatherings of the Things in the square at the north end of Dingworth Street were not abolished until 1810 under French rule. The Dingworthtor was demolished in 1818. On a sketch from 1888, which determined the location of a newly planned evangelical school in Brauhausstrasse, the street name "Dingworthstrasse" was first set in writing, while the name "Untere Bergstrasse" had previously become established. In 1911, the market town of Moritzberg was incorporated into Hildesheim, and Dingworthstrasse remained the most important shopping and main thoroughfare in the district even after the incorporation.
During the Second World War , the houses at Dingworthstrasse 22-33 were destroyed and several houses were damaged in an air raid on Hildesheim on March 22, 1945. The reconstruction took place in the 1950s and 1960s. Towards the end of the 1960s, the city of Hildesheim temporarily had plans to convert Dingworthstrasse into a purely pedestrian zone, but they were not implemented due to the city's increasingly tight financial situation.
location and size
Dingworthstrasse runs with a length of 170 m in the old town center of the Moritzberg district from north to south. It begins at the intersection of Bergsteinweg, Königstrasse, Bergstrasse and Dingworthstrasse, which has been known in the district since the beginning of the 20th century under the name "Güldener Löwe", as there was a restaurant of the same name here. Its northern extension is Elzer Straße, which, with a length of 1350 m, connects Moritzberg with Bundesstraße 1. The house numbers on Dingworthstrasse range from No. 1 to No. 38.
architecture
Due to the eventful history of the street, you can find various architectural styles from different eras in Dingworthstrasse. The eleven houses destroyed in the war were rebuilt in the style of the 1950s and 1960s. A memorial plaque attached to the outside of house no. 24 reminds of the destruction of the house on March 22, 1945 and its reconstruction in 1953. House no. 1, the multi-storey corner house facing Bergstrasse was built in 1911 on a sandstone plinth and has a representative, pointed end and four-storey bay windows and a half-timbered floor of one of the most striking buildings in the entire district. It used to house a traditional restaurant whose name - "Güldener Löwe" - is still used today for a nearby bus stop and for the entire intersection at which it is located. The houses No. 2 - 7 are well-preserved half-timbered houses from the 19th century. In addition to several brick buildings from the end of the 19th century such. B. House No. 9 can be found in Dingworthstrasse just before the corner with Brauhausstrasse, three more half-timbered houses, of which the corner house is the former forge of Moritzberg, which was built in 1850 and renovated in 2012. Next to it are the “House of the Swineherd” (No. 19) and the “House of the Cowherd” (No. 18). Both buildings, known as “shepherds' houses”, were built in 1840 and housed the shepherds employed by the Moritzberg community.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sabine Brand: The place in front of the gate , p. 14. Hildesheim 2014.
- ↑ Sabine Brand: The place in front of the gate , p. 10. Hildesheim 2014.
- ^ Rudolf Zoder: Die Hildesheimer Strasse, p. 27. Hildesheim 1957.
- ^ Rudolf Zoder: Die Hildesheimer Strasse, p. 54. Hildesheim 1957.
- ↑ a b Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung v. February 2, 2008, p. 16.
- ↑ Sabine Brand. The square in front of the gate , p. 42. Hildesheim 2014.
- ↑ Sabine Brand: The place in front of the gate , p. 71. Hildesheim 2014.
- ^ Christiane Segers-Glocke: Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, Vol. 14.1, p. 170. Hameln 2007.
- ↑ Sabine Brand. The square in front of the gate , p. 75. Hildesheim 2014.
- ↑ Sabine Brand: The place in front of the gate , p. 20. Hildesheim 2014.
- ↑ Sabine Brand. The square in front of the gate , p. 77. Hildesheim 2014.
- ^ Günther Hein: Moritzberger Histories , p. 35. Hildesheim 1987.
- ↑ Hartmut Häger: Hildesheimer Strasse, p. 66. Hildesheim 2005.
- ↑ Hartmut Häger: Hildesheimer Strasse, p. 70. Hildesheim 2005.
- ↑ Sabine Brand: The place in front of the gate , p. 67. Hildesheim 2014.
- ↑ Sabine Brand: The place in front of the gate , p. 42. Hildesheim 2014.
Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 58.1 ″ N , 9 ° 55 ′ 49 ″ E